Herro Flom Japan

Podcasts & Videocasts from an American salaryman.

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Site got hacked

June 15th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Make sure your version of WordPress is up-to-date and that you're making frequent backups. Hackers wiped my databases and got the sites ready to use as link farms. They must have gained access to wp-config.php and found the DB password.

I wasn't making backups of Herro Flom Japan or Japlish Podcast and I lost a year's worth of HFJ posts and the entire Japlish site.


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  • 1 mike Mac OS X Mozilla Firefox 4.0.1 // Jun 15, 2011 at 11:35 pm

    I was randomly listening to some of your old podcasts yesterday on archive.org, and I hopped over to your website only to find it gone, and thought that you had let it expire. Cool to see that's not the case!

    I wonder if using archive.org you can get any missisng content that wasn't backed up. There are some older versions of the page archived there.